Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1856, Page 2

EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON CITY: WEDNESDAY............Janmary 23, 1866. 17 Advertisements should be handed in by 32 o’clock, m., otherwise they may not appear “wntil the next day. ——-— + UP Acenrs vor rue Stax.—The following Mamed persons are authorized to contract for the Publication ef advertisements in Tax Star - Philadciphia—V_ B Paix, northwest oor- ner of Fifth and Chestnut streets New York—8. M. Prrrinoitt & Co., Nassau monn, B. Pater, Scoliay’s Building. = 10> Jos Parnrine.—Our friends and patrons are notified that we are now prepared to execute ‘every kind of Jos Painting with despatch and In the best manner, at prices as low as In any other oftice in Washington. Job Printers arealso notified that we are prepared to do every descrip- ‘tion of press-work that can be executed on double cylinder and Adams’ power-presses. So, also, has the Star officea Book Bindery conneeted with At, eqeal in its capecity to turn out book binding of all desoripitions to any other in the District of Columbia. SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS; The Union thinks that the experiment of voting without speaking will shortly succecd Sn compassing the election of a Speaker. The Intelligencer replies to the Unton’s ate rasping (bestowed on the former journal) son account of its injustice in essayiug to sad- die the Demoorats with responsibility for the “present condition of the House, saying in the course of its remarks : “We cannot follow the Unton through the mazes of its rejoinder further than to prevent mystifying the lo issues made in our arti- ‘cle of Monday, which were to show, in reply ‘to its unjust imputations, that the Opposition rtion of the House did not deserve all the lame for the delay in chosing a Speaker ; that, although we had, with perhaps a too liberal distribution, assigned to cach of the parties in the House a portion of this blame, et, if either of them deserved a monopoly of 3t, the Democratie party had the best claim. In support of this view of the case we threw out a few reasons which, as they are before our readers, it is not necossary to repeat. If, however, they were insuilicient to show that the Democratic party in the House could not de exonerated from a great sharo of culpabil- ity of the failure, we might point to the pro- eeedings of Monday last, when they had +t in thetr power to place in the Speakership one of thetr own party—one who has voted from the first for Mr. Richardson; yet they would not accept him. Mr Smith, of Virginia, a Southern Democrat, who has acted and voted with his party in the House, received on Mon- day forty-seven votes, enough. with the votes of his party, to have elected him Speaker and terminated this protracted contest. But his ‘party would not elect him, they adhered tu their purpose that the House should take no one but Mr Richardson. Was this patriotic anxiety to settle the difficulty, or was it fac- tion? We leave all candid men to decide.” The editor surely forgets that the member to whom he refers owes hie present seat in the House rather to the Know Nothings of the district he represents than to the Democrate— Yeeeiving not more than one-tenth of the Democratic votes polled in the neighboring county of Alexandria for instance. He will further recollect that he is not understood to be a supporter of, at least, an important por- tion of the Democratic caucus resolution—or, ‘in other words, that he is by no means such a ‘member of the Democratic party of the House, as can possibly receive, for the Speakership, the votes of that party. It will further be re- collected that but three ot his Democratic col- tion of Mr. Carlile Unsupported by the rest sof those gentlomen, the Inte//;gencer will per- ceive at a glance the impropriety of cssaying to class him as a gentleman who could prop- erly be supported asa Democrat, by the entire Democratic party of the House. — WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. The State of Affairs in Kansas.—We pre- egume that al! thoughtful readers in all sec- tions of the United States, are now perfectly aware that the nominal settlement of the difficulty not long since occurring at or near Lawrence, that caused seven hundred men in that city to arm and do military duty, and, perhaps, twice az many from other portions of the territory and the border counties of Mis- souri, to hasten, with rifles on their shoulders, to aid the civil authorities to maintain the su- premacy of the law, was, in fact, a mere post- ponement of the hour of general collision be- tween the supporters of the two rival systems there. [f not, we may truthfully say that the free State leaders are zealously working through agents every where at the North, to obtain aid in forcing their plans upon the ter- ritory, in the way of men, arms, and money. The very arms with which the Abolitionists of Lawrence lately set the law at defianco, were thus gratuitously furnished to that end; while, at this moment, the efforts to procure More such aid at the North, are ten times as great as everbefore. Gen. Atchison, too, has made an appeal to the other side that will have due effect ; writing to Georgia and every where throughout the South, as fullows “* Let your young men come forth to Miseouri and Kansas. Let them come well armeu, with money enough to support them for twelve months, and determined to see this thing out' One hundred true men will be an woquisition. The more the better. I do not see how we are to avoid civil war; come it will. Twelve monthe will not elapse before war—civil war of the fiercest kind—will be upon us. eure arming aud preparing for it. Indeed, wo of the border counties are prepared. We must have the support of the South. Weare fight- ing the battles of the South. Our institutions areatstake. You far southern men are now out of the naive of the war, but if we fail, it will reach your own doors, perhaps your hearths e want men, armed men. We want money—not for ourselves, but to support our friends who may come from a distance. I have now in this house two gallant young men from Charleston,S C. They are ‘citizene of Kansas, and will i sti gree’ will remein -o until her destiny “Let your young men come on in squads as fast as they can be raised, well area Wo want none but true men. Yours truly. : DR. Arc! ; P.5.—I would not be astonished if this day laid the — for a guerrilla war in Kansas. have heard of rumors of atrife and battle at Leavenworth, seven miles from this place, but the ice is running in the Missis- eippiriver, and I have nothing definite I was a peace-maker in the difficulty lately settled by GovernorShannon. 1 counselled the ‘ Ruf- fians’ to forbearance, but I will never again counsel peace. RA” If any sound conclusion may be drawn from the alacrity with which the young men of the Bouth rushed to the aid of Texas in her hour of need, and subsequently to their country’s standard when raised in Mexico. it is not to be for an instant doubted that this appeal from David R. Atchison will be at least as effectively responded to as all the appeals of all the abolitionists in Kansas and their oo-la- boring newspapers, lecturers, aid societies, é&c., in the non- aveholding States; all of whom, for the last six months, have been call- ing for money, arms, and men from the North to aid in fighteme out their cause in the dis puted Territory. If ever there was a case in which a portion of any government abandoned its trust in time of extreme danger, that case is to be found in the present condition of the House of Repre- sentatives. It is their duty to put a stop to this so imminent civil war, in which the first considerable battle cannot be fought without involving many States. It wil!, in six months after the first battle in Kansas, rago fiercely along the banks of the Ohio; or little faith is to be placed in the signs of popular sentiment along the banks of that river, those south of it being as determined to back those struggling for what they hold to be their rights, as those nerth of it to back their champions in Kansas, How, in the name of Heaven, is this collision, which all peaceable and truly patriotic men deplore and dread, to be warded off, but through direct action of Congress? What can Congress possibly do in the premises with the House in iis present condition’ Is it to be wondered that the persistence of the House under such circumstances as exist, in refusing to organize, has already generated a sturm of contempt everywhere for that branch of Con- gress’ The Missouri Compromise —Among the funniest things conceivable to us is the gravity with which the anti-slavery party, both in and out of the House hall profess horror at the violation of the Missouri compromise by those who enacted the Nebraska bill—that Pandora's box of evils for the future of the State, according to the logic of those gentle- men. Since 1842 and 1843, wo have very rarely failed to be present in the hall when the House has been in session, and in all that time until very shortly before the triumph of the Nebraska bill, we never know Mr. Gid- dings and his legislative cuadjuters to ap- proach the subject of the Missouri compromise, without characterizing it ae a surt of compact with hell to perpetuate human slavery, 28 Garrison & Cy say of the Conatitution of the United States. From the day of its enact- meut (in the admissiun of Missouri as a State of the Union) dewn to very near the period of the enactment of the Nebraska bill, no bill or resolution has beon up for consideration be- fure Congress upon which it was possible to hinge a vote or speech against the Missouri compromise, that its now so onthusiastic sup- porters and defonders failed tu denounce and essay to destroy it. This fact is patent in the rocords of Con- gress, from the day of the admiseiun of Mis- souri until the Nebraska controversy aroso, Under these circumstances, is it wonderful that we place no reliance whatever on the Missouri-compromise protestations and lamen- tations of Messrs. Giddings, Greeley & Co.? It will be weil for some gentleman to put to these brag defenders uf the Missouri compro- mize, whether their party is prepared to pledge itself hereafter to varry out, on ae- quiring territory, the principle of the Missouri compromise, if the friends of the Nebraska bill will consent to its restoration upon the statute book’? Our life on it, their answer would be promptly and flatly in the negative. A Feasible Plan —We rest under the im- pression that in the course of the coming-weck a majority in the House will vote for a resu- lution to elect by the plurality rule, excluding the three gentlemen who havo up to this time received the highest number of votes We Sage Raxtnn i Nee ‘subject with geutiemen belonging to all three parties, We belicve that the Democrats, who, one and all, greatly deplore the existing condition of things as casting a lamentable stigma on our system of government, wil! yote fer such a proposition, in the spirit actuating the Hon. Howell Cobb, when remarking not long since in debate, that the reason why that party opposed the plurality rule with so great persistence, was, simply, because they would not consent to the election of Mr. Banke under it; and not because they are unwilling to per- mit the opposition majurity to elect some other gentleman who may be well known as a con- servative member. An election ever to be ef- fected, must be brougit about by the adop- tion of a proposition similar to the one we state above, which we believe if offered to- morrow, will receive the votes of ull the Demo- crats, three fuurths of the American party, and twenty-five or thirty of those who have sup- ported Mr. Banks Judging from recent re- cent remarks of the Jtel/igencer, this plan will meet the approbation of the conductora of that journal. We hope to-morrow to find in its columns a strung appeal in favor of a re- sort to some such method of efiveting a settle- ment of the vexed and voxutious controversy. Crime in the United States and its Au- thors.—It is often flippantly asserted that the great mass of crime in the United States is committed by foreigners It is a convenient argument, but one which will be found, on examination, to 'e werely assertion, without facta to sustain it. Wo observe in the Ameri- can Almanac for 1895, (a work prepared witb Sreat skill and accuracy, and consequently of high statistical authority.) a statement care- fully collected from the returns of the clorks of the courts, under the head of Crime, from which it appears that of the 14,998 convictions had before the courts of the United States, from 1841 to 1854 inclusive—a period of four- teen years—¥, 543 were of natives of the United States, und 5,450 foreigners. So that, so far as the crusade against foreigners, now going on in this country, to which they have, in many direct and indirect ways been invited, is based upon their ubjectionable character in this respect, it is thus by figures shown to be without any justification whatever _Impér.ant to Postmasters — Our atten- tion has been called to the fact that some postmasters are in the babit of sending back to the mailing office letters reaching them for delivery, becwuze they were not prepaid by stamps, but by moucy. This is wrong, a mis- apprehension of the jaw. In no ease, indeed, ehould a letter after it has reached the office of delivery, be returned for postage, much les# should it be returned because the postage was not paid by stamps. It is the general duty of postmasters to see that letters are propaid by stamps, but when (having been prepaid in cash, either through ignorance of the law, or inadvertence, or want of stamps on the part of the maili; postmaster) they reach their desti- nation, itisthe duty of the postmaster to deliv- : a the same as though zene by stam " bs mi ly happon, in the introduction of the stamp. Prepayment system, that supplies of stamps will fail to rewch all of the amit and remote offices at the proper time, and it would be doing violence to the citizen: of those lo- calities to return, and thus delay their corre- spondence, because of a circu: avoidable. Entertaining this vi 80 un- ject, the department has motrusted past bella not having stamps, to forward lette: tofore when prepaid by money. Tt ages 3 paid letter, from any cause, gets into the m: and reaches its destination, it should be de- bee on payment of postage at prepaid rate’ Ta giving place to the above article, we deom it proper to add that we have made inj quiry at the Post Office Department on the subject, and are enabled to state positively that no order has been issued to do away with prepayment by stamps, ercapt tn the case of postmasterswho have not heen furnished with stamps. Such postmasters, aud such only, are authorized to forward letters as hereto- fore when duly prepaid in money. The law does not peremptorily require prepayment by by stampe, but provides that ‘‘the Postmaster General may requiro postmasters to place postage stamps on prepaid letters upon which stamps may not have been placed by the writer.” This the Postmaster General has directed shall be done. Yet we are assured that it is not intended or expected that this regulation shall throw upon postmasterg the labor of af- fixing postage stamps to letters where the writers might, without inconvenience, have done it for themselves. The main thing is for posimasters to keop themselves supplied with stamps, that all persons having occasion to use may reudily obtain them. Letters for foreign countries are not necessarily required to be prepaid by stamps, a the late law applies only to domestic correspondence. Appointment of Rogisters and a Re- ceiver.—Alexander D. Anderson, of Lowa, to be register of the land office at Dubuque, Iowa, in the place of George McHenry, re- meved. John H. Crease. of Arkansas, to be register of the land office at Little Rock, Arkansas, in the place of Robert A. Watkins, removed. Wm. Bevins, of Arkansas, to be receiver of public moneys at Batesville. Arkansas, in the place of John C. Claiborne, removed Aloxander W. Kush to be register of the land office at Palmyra, Missouri, in the place of William P. Harrison, resigned. Coming to a Head '!—Tie notice of the with- drawal of Mr. Richardson created a profound sensation in the House. Something like the plan we suggest in an- other column will be adopted to-morrow. All parties will probably hold caucuses to- night The auti-Banks, anti- Richardson, and anti- Fuller reeelution of Mr. Rust, will pass to ierrow, we think. The Current0 perstions of the TressuryDe partment —On yesterday, 22d of January, thore were of Treasury Warranta entered on the books of the Department— For the redemption of stocks.... $5,054 19 Forthe Treasury Derartment.... 1,160 15 Forthe Interior Department..... 5,056 60 Forthe Customs. tee se 30,833 07 War Warrants received and en tered ...cererecccerecccerseess 159,421 59 War repay warrants received and Ontered...ccrrccrccesccceessece 1,727 10 Interior repay warrants received and entered . 2,198 10 From iniscellaneous souro: 24,777 15 From Lands...... 15,706 44 On account of the Nar 169 637 94 Monetary and Commercial. —The following quotations of bonds, stocks and land warrants were furnished us to-day, (January 23) by Chubb Brothers: BONDS AND CITY STOCKS. Corporation 6 per cent do 6 do do 6 de covroxs is City Bonde 6 per cent. ex int do 6 «do do @ 6 de do INSURANCE STOCKS. ot) a the market) lo Firemen’s (noue in Franklin (uope Potomac a ! do @ short bids do iskebure. 6 ag rieans do 6 de Pittsbarg 4 6 do Karlingte do do Han Francisco do 19 pay NY. do San Francisco do 10pey8.F do Sacramento do 10 pay N. ¥. do UNITED BTATES STOCKS S86 6 percent. | — f 1862 6 do eo {Leet 6 do = Loan of 1368 6 do = Loan of 1884 (Coupeas) 6 do = Loan of 1865 (Texas Ind.) 6 Jo _- RAILROAD BOUNDS. Baltimore & Oh‘o 6 1RAG - Raitimore & Ubio 6 ws! — Reading 6 Isso | — Heading 6 170) — oO & Alex 6 j- i! Central 7 i= Diino!s Central (Freeland, 7 — BANK &TOCK | Bank of Metropolia | ae Hank of Washington ti— 2 © Bank ~ wk Mech ‘a’ Kank, Georgetown | — ‘he Old Dominion, Alexandria. } = | ! STATE STOCKS, 6 per ceut | — 19 @% do | = | 101 @ 03 do — 2 so vem do _ c23 2 California 7 do —|« 85 LAND WARRANTS. 160 acre warrants, per acre...$1 06 a $1 07 do do do... 106 a 107 120 do do do - 103 a 1 04 60 do do 1030 104 40 do do... 44 00 a 45 00 RATES OF FOREIGN BANK NOTES. Disc’t Dise't Eastern States... # Richmend....... 3 New York State. 4 Norfolk... i New York city... par Petersburg .. i Pevneylvania.... 4 Fredericksburg i Philadelphia . Winchester.... 3 New Jersey... N.W States.... 14 Delaware... Kentucky ....... 14 Maryland . Tennessee....... 24 Baltimore . North Carolina... 2 Virginia........ Other 8. States ..la2 Land warrants have again, contrary to all expectation, experienced 4 sudden advance, and 160’s and 80's readily command 106, while 120’s are active at 103a104. It iv impossible to say what the price will be one woek hence, whether higher or lower. The issue continues upwards of 500 per day, or about 60,000 acres. It has always beon expected that the locations would be less dur- ing January and February than in any other months, and those most competont to judge have exprossed the opinion that, by the first of March, there would be a large accumula- tion of warrants on the market, and that ere this time, owing to the surplue, the price would be as low as te per acre, if not lower. The calculations have been based upon the former iseues, und the supply and demand in corres- ponding months. It is true the locations have never been as heavy during the former issues of warrants as during the present; but as far ascan be ascertained, not two-thirds of the warrant ivsued have been located; yot cer- tainly it is there is no surplus of warrants on the market. This is probably owing to the fact that most of the warrants are issued to parties who are not compelled to sell for the want of money, aud hold their warrants fot the purpose of locating, or that they may ob- tain higher prices. The present demand is mostly from parties who are purchasing to locate lands on specu- lations, and not from the usual source,—that is, dealere at the West who purchase to sell to actual settlers. The advance of about five cents per acre during the last week is proba- bly occasioned by the severe enow storm which has delayed the receipt of warrants by the warrantees, and the state of the roads Preventing the’warrantees going to the court houses to assign them. The orders from the cities have come forward in large numbers, while there are but few warrants to meet them. State stocks and other first class securities are firm, and the money market is much easier than it has been for many months. Specie has ceased to go abroad in any quan- tity, and exchange on Europe is now below the actual par. There is @ larger amount of money seeking investment than usual, and were it not for the disorganized state of Con- gress the prices of State securities would ma- terially advance ———q—- CONGRESS!“ NAL PROCEEDINGS. In the House, yesterday, after we went to press, the one hundred and twentieth vote for a Speaker was essayed with the following re- sult Whole number of votes cast 194; necessary to a choice 98. Mr. Richardson received 67, Banke 91. Ful- lor of Pa. 28, Campbell of Ohio 4, scattering 4. There being no election, the one hundrod and twenty-first vote was had, and resulted as follows : Whole number of votes cast 195 , necessary to a choice 98 Mr. Richardson received 67, Banks 91, Ful- ler of Pa. 29, Campbell of Ohio 5, scattering 3. No choice. And then they adjourned. Preceedings of To-Day. The Senate were not in session to-day. In the House, Mr. Richardson announced that after to-day his name would be uncon ditionally withdrawn as a candidate for the Speakership. He gave this notice in order that his friends might have an opportunity to determine what they should do in this con- tingency. He had been induced to take this step because he knew that it is impossible to elect him, and was anxivus to do his share in effecting an organization. He remarked that he held his present posi- tion as a candidate without direotly or indi reetly seeking it. and only in deference to the so euiphatioally and repeatedly declared will of his political friends in the House. J Mr Dowdell offered a resolution providing fer opening the daily sessiovs of the House i yer hereafter, the differont clergymen hington being invited to officiaie by ; agreed to. The House then proceeded with the one hundred and twenty-second vote for a Speaker, with the following result - Whole number of votes cast, 194; necessary to a choice, 94. Mr. Richardson received 65, Banks 90, Ful- ler of Pa. 30, Campbell 5, scattering 4. No choice being effected— Mr. Rust renewed his preamble and resolu- tion (withdrawn a day or two since) request- ing Messrs Banks, Fuller, and Richardson, to withdraw their names from the canvass. Mr. Washburn, of Maine, moved to lay the resolution on the table; uot laid on the table— yeas 96, nays 96 The yeas and nays were then taken on the main question, and decided in the negative— yeaz 93, nays 101 ons Harrer’s Macazixe for February is re- ceived at Robert’s Newspaper and Periodical Depot 327 Seventh street, between K and L streets. Back numbers 6; vente. Gopgy’s Lapy’s Book for February has been sent us by Col. Shillington. It is em- phatically “useful, ornamental, and instruc- tive,’ combining literature, engravings and the fashions SgItirseton, that indefatigable Colonel of tho Literary Quartermaster’s Department, has received the Harper's last ration of Magazine literature. Those enlisted in the corps of ud- mirers of “ Little Dorritt’’ wiM be the firet to apply for copies. yet othors will find the usual variety of readable matter, The columns of Harper ure always in condition to pazs inzpec- tne "PERSONAL. _ Hackett is performing at New Orleans. -+++ The Black Swan is in Philadelphia ++.» Hon J. R. Chandler lectured in Phil adelphia last evening. -... George Wood, family, are at Willard’s. Young Folix has been pardoned by the Spanish Government, and is expected here soon , of New York, and +++. Archbishop Hughee is to repeat in New York his Baltimore lecture on the growth and \tbrsasy position of the Roman Catholics in the aited States. :+++ Isaac Smoot and Henry March died in Winchester last week. They wore brother sol- diers of the war of 1812; the first having served under Gen. Suth. and the latter having been drum major at Norfolk. ++++ Mille. Rachel’s stay in Cuba will be prolonged in all probability until May. She will then return to Europe by way of New York. Rachel at the present time has no idea vf again appearing on the American stage, but it is thought she may yet change her plans. -+++ The Ravels have gotten up a new pan- tomine, called the ‘ Schoolmaster,”’ in which they all appear. Francois is the mischievous big boy, and he sets the school in an upr as soon as the master (Jerome) goes eut. This eamsnonlity keeps the awlience laughing heart- ly: ++++N. K Wade, of Pittsburg, Pa., has beon employed by Harrison & Winans, (Amer- icans, who have been for some years in the employ of the Russian Government on great public works, and are now about to manufac- ture ordnance at St. Potersburg,) to superin- tend this branch of business, with a salary of $5,000 per annum. +++» John Upton, Express Messenger, who was severely injured at the late accident on the Hudson River Railroad, has been pre- sented with nearly $1,000 by the banks of Now York for his fidelity to their interests in watch- ing their treasure during that fearful time, while he himself was badly hurt. +++» Judge May, of Petersburg, the fathor- in-law of Hon. T. H. Bayly, has received a letter from that | eye who is now in Havana, stating that his health is much im- pave: und that he expectsere long to resume is duties in Cungroes. ++++ Prof. John Le Conte, formerly of Frank- lin collego, and Dr. Church, the venerable president of that institution, are conducting u somewhat bitter personal controversy in the paver. The Dr. evidently has the worst of it. +++ Queen Victoria would not see her maid of honor, Mise Murray, upon her return from the United States, and signified to her that if she published a defense of slavery she must resign her place. Miss Murray has done so, aie ue longer 2 member of the royal house- old. vers Rev. Mr. Broadus, of the University of Virginia, will deliver 2 lecture at Library Hall, in Petersburg, on Tuesday next. Other distinguished gentlemen have sleo accepted invitations, among whom may be mentioned Hon. Edward Everett, Senator Benjamin, @. P. R. James, J. Barron Hope, Dr. Doggett, and Bishop Atkinson. ++ Barnum's “Jerome Clock Company” is again under protest, and will, it is supposed, make an assignment. The arrangements mado some weeks e were not sufficient to save them. Their liabilitics were found to be much larger than they represented, and their assets much less valuable. The concern ap- pears to be a total wreck Mars. Cunsage, a Springfield lady connected with Mrs. Partington, arsed or organs a3 she left church. ‘* Dear me,’’ said she, “this is an ago of conventions. When I was a girl, organs were in their infancy. A fore-runner used to turn the crank, and alittle monkey take the pennies. But now an organiser pre- sides over the estimate, while the deacon takes up a constitution. Qh, you should hear the fellow perform one of his closing volup- tuaries, when he pulls out all the stopples, son's on ae peda ood dene td a ie ion as pass theiy - spective p of diversion.” ’ SMITHSONIAN I ECTURES —Prof. RS sto J. CHACE, of Brown University, will, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, commerce a course of Lectures on ‘Chemistry applied to the ts.°? rouibject : Introductory ; Constitution of Matter; Properties of Oxygen particularly with reference the subject of the course. Illustrated with rume- Tous experiments Lectures commence at 9 0’clook ‘The public are respectfully invited to attend jan It it NOTICE —THOSE PERSONS RE- enn tickets to the Executive Cem- mittee of the Washington Highlanders’ Ball for the benefit of the poor, are respectfully requested to give their names as It will save the Committee the trouble of calling on them ler JOHN BAIN, J T.K. PLANT, ? Committee Mr. WILLSON, _Jan 21—3t | << GEORGETOWN CORPORATION ‘TAXES —All persons in arrearages for taxes due to the Cor tion of Georgetown are hereby notified that the same must be paid forth- with, in order to avoid the expense and mortifica tion of distrains. No longer Saeehaence can pos- sibly be granted, and as all delinquent parties have been heretofore personally called upon, this is the last notice that can be given Those who intend to pay their bills will please call before the 25th day of this month at my resi- dence, on the corner of High and Gay streets My two sons, George and Tieay C. Jewell are authorized to give receipts in my behalf. jan 18-d.2st WM. JEWELL, Collector Se me cen eich Binion 30 oe cen taste | << — REMEMBER THE TEA POT.”— Mrs. Smith set her Tea Pot on the range to draw the tea, little dreaming It ‘ would’nt stand the fire,” till she saw It ran. She screamed as it disappeared, and fell back in convulsions. Every remedy was administered, but nothing wonld restore her. At last her husband said he would call on FRANCIS, Seventh street. and buy her one of his FIRE PROOF TEA POTS, when she was observed to smile. Inthe morning after starting away, Mr. Smith looked back and saw her standing in the door. Fors moment he Iis- tened. It was that same musical veice, “My Dear, remember the Tea Pot.’’ jan 1% PINE WOOD ONLY &5. NE OR TWO HUNDRED CORDS BEST quality PINE WOOD, well seasoned, will be delivered at five dollars percord. Shares tn portion. Apply at the Yards, corner 9th and ii streets, and foot of 17th =treet. oppesite \Vash in,;ton Monument jan 23—H* UTICE —THE PUBLIC ARE HERELY cautioned against purchasing a ced wis na by William V. H- Brown, and the undersigned, to Franklin Skinner, bearing date i3th of February, 1855, for the sum of five huudred dollars, and pay- abiec twelve months after date Said note having been fraudulently obtained, neither said Brown or myself will pay the same. GEO W. BOARDMAN. jan 3-lawiw* LUNATIC.-TRUEMAN DE MOTT, A Lunatic, with sandy hairand florid complex- jon, esca) from his home and friends in the town of Ellery, N. Y., some time since, and, it is thonght, will endeavor to make his way to Wash- ington. Hts relatives are most enaious to obtain information where he ts, and any one who may hear cf him will be suitably rewarded for drop- ph _ the editor of the Star. j t COLUMBIA MARKET, Pennsylvania avenue, corner of 13th st HARKLES MALLARD HAS OPENED THE above place for the keeping and sale of Pork, Beef, Mutton, Poultry, Butter, Lara, together with Game, Fruits and Vegetables in all its sea- sons. CM baving had sixteen years experience tn a neighboring city, fatters himself that be will be able to keep a choice selection of PROVISIONS generally, and hopes, by moderate charges and strict personal attention to the wants of bis cus- tomers to merit a share of the public patronaye. jan 23—2aw CLOTHING MADE TO ORDEK. NV EMBERS OF CONGRESS, CITIZENS and strangers wishing to supply themselves with superior garments, made to order, are invited to examine our superior assortment of Doeskins, Cloth: ‘assimeres, Silk, Satin and Velvet Vest- clal view to the wants of our customers, which we witl make to measure ina manner Inferior to none, at much cheaper rates than the usual city prices. WALL & STEPHENS, Pa. avenue, between #th and lth 4 hak UY AND SELL FOREWS“AND DOMESTIC EXCHANGE; FURNISH DRAFTS Om all Dawtc of United Statos and Europes; mmm OLLECT DRAFTS On opares of United States and Europe; DKAW BILLS ON ERBERND FOR £1 OR UPWARDS, BUY AND SELL BONDS, KS, & OTHER SHCURITIES; Ni TIATE TIME PAPER, Investm: aying and over, for sale. WAND WARRANTS We are at all times Parchasing, and have for Sale, LANDDQV ARK ANTS of ail denominations. and Wart Is located in lowa, Wisconsin, or ate CHUBB BROTHERS oe. Bankers, opposite the Treasury INSTRUCTION IN DANCING. ONS. J. COCHEU BEGS LEAVE TO IN- form the citizens of Washington, George- 4, and vicinity that his second quarter will mence on the 26th instant. ‘Thee who are desirous ef favoring him with thelr patronage are | sean d savited to make ay application, that hey may be prepared to partfelpate in his next May Festival, on which occasion he intend: troducing (as an addition 'o those already duced by him) several new and characteristic dences ¥. S.—Mons. C. being free from any engage- meat every morning during the season (except Saturday) offers his services to ladles and gentle- men desirous of receiving private instruction at their residence Orders left at the Music Stores of Mr. Zantzin- ger or Mr. Davis will be thankfully attended to. jan23—'m United States Patent Office, Washington, Jan. 22, 1856 N_THE PETITION OF JOSEPH H BUR- ROWS, of Cincinnati, Ubio, praying for the extension of a patent ited to them on the 23d day of April, 1512, for an improvement in “Mill Stones,’ for seven years from the expl- ration of said nt, which takes place on the 23d day of April, 1556: It is ordered, that the petition be heard at the Patent Office on Monday, the 7th of April next, at 12 o'clock m ; and all persous are notified to = pear and show cause, if any they have, why said peition ought not to be granted. Persons opposing the extension are required to file in the Patent Oilice their objections, specially set forth in writing, at least twenty days before the day of hearing; all testimony hea by either party to be used at the said hearing must be taken and transmitted in accordance with the rules of the office, which will be furnished on application. The testimony in the case will be closed on the ‘27th day of March; depositions and other papers relied upon as testimony must be filed In the of- fice on or before the morning of that day; the ar- guments, if any, within ten days thereafter Ordered, also, that this notice be published In the Union, Intelliyencerand Evening Star, Wash- dugton, D.C ; Argas, Baltimore, Patriot & Union ‘Harrisburgh, Pa; Journal of Commerce, New York; and Enquirer, Cincinnati, Obto, once a week forthree successive weeks previous to the 7th day of April next, the day of hearing. CHARLES MASON, ao of Sones S.—Editors of the above papers will please no , and send their bills to the Patent Saice, wh a paper containing this notice. jan w3—tawsw OST—A GOLD PENCIL CASE & PEN— patent extension, and bearing the lultials W. E.toT. C.D, The finder will very Mberaily rewarded by returning !t to the undersigned, at Browns’ Hotel, or at the House of Representa- tives T. Cc. DAY. jan 22-38 pe R HIKRE—A SERVANT MAN AND Woman, both accustomed to houschold du ties and farming operation. Slaves for life. Ad- dress WW,” through the Post O flice jan 22—3t Minnesota. jau 23- 9. 4 10-4, 11-4 AND 12-4 BED BL, ~Bq ETS, very cheap, red, blue and g: French Merino and Merino Plaids Quilled Skirts, Hosiery and Gloves White, red and yellow Flannels With many other Winter Goods to be closed out cheap. WM. R.- RILEY, Cor. 8th st , opposite Centre Market. jan 22—im SUIREES. if ROF.H.W.MUNDERK MOST RESPECT- fully announces to the public that bis Soirees Selon take place every WEDNESDAY EVEN- N6. These entertainments are considered by all who have attended them to be the most sociable that has ever heen = in this city. jan 2—TA Ww PE ase nln ac a Se AKNING.—MARY ANN WHITAKER, an indented white girl, left my residence yesterday. Ail persons forbid har! = eee peal of the law ee ht H. B. SAWYER, jan 17—F ,M,W,&F 97 Penn. avenue. —_————— NATIONAL THEATRE ame anp Manaorr.... Hewes © January oe (Also of the Baltimore Museum ) Srack Manacer seoeeeMr JEFFERSO* PRICES OF ADMISSION Dress Circle and nette Famtly Circle, sec ter. is Gallery -.00eseceeeraeeesenereee > RMD No extra charge for Reserved Seats Private Boxes can be obtained. Box Office open Tuerd iy and Wednesday from 9 until 4 o'clock cme WEDNESDAY EVENING, Jan. 23, ks, Performance to commence with ST NIGHT,” THE «Ft Mons. Dofard. Emilia After which the Comic Drama of TOODLES. ay ee To conclude with the drama of JACK SHEPPARD Jack Sheppard... see eeeewene Albertine Doors open at 6 o'clock p. m.: curtain vise at 7% 0’ cloc! ta jen 2t HE NEW BLU Register 125%, just Issued, giving = salaries, locations, &c_, of all postmasters ~4 er public officers and agents, civil, military, # naval, in the service the United States ; with the names, forces, and condition of all ships and vessels belonging to the United States, when and where built; and (he-names and compensa tion of all printers in any way employed by Con gress, or any department or officer of the Govern ment 1 octavo volume, price #3 Can be sent by mall to any part of the United States For sale in Washington by TAYLOR & MAURY, Booksellers, neat 9h st = x, . "MEK AB AN eliand, one small grey jana Hors-, having saddle and bridle, both of which are about worn No marks en the borse vibe Given under my hand and scal this Zist dav cf January, 153 THOMAS ©. DONN,J P Phe sald horse came to the residence of theeub seriber on Saturday, the 1%b of Septem: i-%. atl p.m. The owner will therefore come forward, prove property, pay charges and take them eway. NU. McULE A South Capitol street, at Ro! jan 22H MADAME DEVUS A PARIS ADAME DEVUS, ENCOURAGED by ber late visitto Washington, will axein © e more splendid assorunent of new and rich MIL LINERY at THE LAKES, No S04 Pennsylvania svemwe Madame Devos, whose celebrity is not confined to this conti-ent, Keeps the most extensive end fashionable Millinery Establixhment (at Ne 45) Breedway, New York, and on the Ruede la Paix } for Millinery and Head Dresses of tasty and recherche cacellence the ts wnri- valiet Madame Devos will! of vur house ca the 2 Show Room up stairs jan ® Stony’s n ber styles for the ser- th instant THE LAKES, 54 Pa avenoe CALL IMMEDIATELY: A Book worth $1.25 fer One Deliar: AND A PRESENT’ Worth from 2 cents to Une Hundred Dollars - T THE STORE OF THE WASHINGTON +i Book Company, under Dexter's Hotel Just reocived— Mimic Life, Alone, Widow Bedott Papers Juno Clifford, Female Life Among the Mormons Miss Bunkiey’s Book, Young Ladies’ Book Phonixtana, Kate Wisten Abbott's Napoleon, 2 vols Macaulay's Histery England, 4 vols Len Years Among the Mail Bags And 10,000 other yood Books, too numerous t designate ina ngue The last {tne Sale unless a Speaker is ress | ine our IMMENSE STOCK and judge for yourselves. Remember the lest chance Positively the last. Sce Red Flag jan2n— SPECT A- n the Cap- mel _ jan 21—at I OST, UN SATURDAY LAST. by aledy, 4 between the corner of 44 and © streets, aud Mr DW. Hall's Green Hover, on Sth street, near New York avenue, a steel work Porte Monnak with gold rim, and lined with orlinson silk —_ $65, mostly in 85 wold pieces. The er will be liberally rewarded by leaving it » office jan 2i— OW 18 THE TIME TO USE the water +% proof Cork Shoe Soles, for «alc by jan 2i—3t LAMMOND, ®r , 7th st RANSPARENT SOAP for chapped hands for sale at LAMMOND’S, 5r., 7th st jan Z1—3t THE FINE Came BOAT FOR SAL / Canal Boat “Isaac Long,”’ about 120 tons burthen, will sold on favorable terms Apply to WATERS, corner of High and Wa Georgetown. jan 21-lw G LASS SIGNS with SILVER LET- 4S TERS.—A chance for men out of employ- meut. Full instractions in this art will be sent by mail to any , by enclosing two dollar te GEO. C. HENNING, jan 21—3t* Washington, DC Cass TO THE SUBSORIBER, residin 7 on the corner of 2istand P sts. First Ward. on the 16th of last month, a BRINDLE COW, with white face and belly, and the top of ber horns cut off. Any one owning such Cow is no- tified to come forward, prove property, pay char- ges and take her away. jan 21—3t* THOS McNANEY. EN GOOD INVES’ ° KE HAVE FOR SALE THE FOLLOW- ing Bonds and others, which will yield the bolder ten to twelve per cent. on the investment, viz: (Orange and Alexandria Rail Bonds Virginia and Tennessee do Jilinots Internal Imp’t Bonds of 1847 The above securities are uestionabl y safe. SWEENY, RITTENHOUSE, FANT & CO. jan 2t—1m Bankers, 352 Pa avenue O T LC E._WE SINCERELY TENDER 1 our thanks to all those of our customers who have in accordance with the notice of the issue of our bills, called and paid at our desk their re speetive amounts. There who still owe os are Le to setile up their bills, with waiting to called, on, which may be disagree are aware, from the heading of the’: e terms on which they made their por CLAGETT, DUDBUN & CO chases. jan 21-1 DKESS AND CLOAK MAKING. ISS A. E. DAVIDSON TAKES THIS method of informing the citizens and strau ers of Washington, that she still continues the RESS AND CLOAK MAKING j and most fashionable varieties. long exper! ence tu the busiaess warrants ber in assuring sat isfaction to these favoring ker with their patron age. Ladies wishing Cloaks and Dresses cut and bast-d can be sccommodated on reasonable term Residence, 6th strev!, between D and KE, Ne. 457 jan westside 1698 DAGUERKEUTYPING BY A LADY. RS.A.C REDMOND HAVING ADDED to her new rooms « beautiful Skylight, and engi an Assistant Operater, (one of the best in the District,) she inte: het to have ber Pictures excelled. if equalled, in the United States. PIC- TURES pu up in Emboosed Cases for Fifty — such as are usually sold elsewhere for one jollar. Particular attention paid to Copying Deguerre OlL Palutings, &e., dc. Mre R solicits the patroneze of the Ladies par ot ticularly. | ead Rooms—to1 Seventh street, west side, be- tween H and i jan 2i-f ANCY GOODS —ENGLISH, FRENCH and German Just received at THE LAKES, dec H—tf 301 Pa avenue CHRISTMAS GIFT: OBERT SCHWARZE HAS THE PLEA- sure of informing the public that he is we!! Pp for accommodating the public in general with FRESH OYSTERS, put up air-tight, for sending them to their distant friends in the cour- wy je alxu keeps constantly on hand a fine «up- plyof PICKLED and PRESERVED OYSTERS Please cellon RB. SCHWARZE, corner of Lith and & rtreets, or leave ordess at bis establishment || epeeemge PEN KNIVES, warranted gen- rersin bought personally from the manufactu ; Indies and gentlemen's patterns. of one to four blades, in , and rh handles. __ (jan 6} ANCK TAYLO ELECAsT New year ESENTS muy be found at T. GALLIGAN & CO Silver, En- 370 — Plated Ware, ticles, Svenue, under Browns’ hotel